Tag Archives: Microsoft

Google Stealing Windows Phone Pivot View for Android

One of the unique features of Windows Phone is that it has a pivot view, which is an intuitive way of fitting more on pages. Google has effectively stolen this idea with their new marketplace app. With this update, you …

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Microsoft Re-launches SkyDrive with HTML5

It looks like Microsoft has decided that it wants in on the whole cloud storage thing, so they revamped SkyDrive, with new features and HTML5 compatibility. The whole web interface has been redesigned for HTML5, and is much more focused …

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Thoughts On E3; What To Look Forward To

The main event in gaming, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, E3, ended only five short days ago, unveiling many new titles and consoles that we here at OTN can’t wait to see. With all this recent buzz and new information, I’m …

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Hulu Plus on 360 launches tomorrow

Major Nelson has revealed that Hulu Plus will be arriving on the XBOX 360 tomorrow! Plus, all XBL members will get the service free for one week thanks to Jack Link’s beef Jerky. Thank you, beef jerky. Thank you very …

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Microsoft Offers Barack Obama a Free Windows Phone

Barack Obama was recently caught saying that the phones in the white house weren’t very good. “The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff. I’m like, c’mon guys, I’m the president of …

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Microsoft-Certified Micro SD Card Now Available for Samsung Focus for $80

Up until now, expanding a Windows Phone’s available storage has been a pain, and has been cursed with many problems. Microsoft has been quietly testing many micro SD cards to find out which ones works with Windows Phone. There’s finally …

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Microsoft Installs WP7 App Wall at Mix 2011

Remember the Apple developer wall at WWDC 2009? Inspired by Apple’s app wall a few years back, Microsoft has put a wall of Windows Phone app icons on one of their WP7 booths at Mix 2011. It’s not as cool …

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Windows Phone 7 Copy/Paste Update Coming in Early March

We’ve been hearing information on the WP7 Copy.paste update since December, but Microsoft has finally given us a release date for the update. This update contains copy/paste, application speed improvements, and a whole lot of bug fixes. The update will …

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Microsoft Announces WP7 Update with Twitter Integration, SkyDrive and IE9

Some more information from the Mobile Word Congress today; Microsoft announced a future Windows Phone 7 update that will include a whole lot of new features. The first being Twitter Integration which will work like Facebook in the People hub. …

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Microsoft Demos Multitasking on Windows Phone 7

Well this is a happy surprise, Microsoft has showed off a new Windows Phone update with multitasking a bunch of other new features. To get to this cool app switcher, just hold down the back button. 3rd party multitasking was …

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